The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-23 00:00:00

ROYAL ALIAN OPE-RA, Covent -garden. From this time until the end of the season thrre will be four Opera nights in each week, viz., every 3onday, 'Ts.:zzday, Thursday, and saturday. Extra Night. Mdlle. Lucca ; Mdlle. Battu ; Madame Didiee ; M. Faure ; Signor Attri ; and Signor Mario. THIS EVEANG (MONDAY), May 23d, will be per formed, for the econd time this season, Meyerbeer's Grano Opera, LES HUGUENOTS. 'Valentina, Mdlle. Pauline L eca ; Margari a de Valois, Mdlle. Marie Battu ; Dania 'Onore, 51. dame TagAatico; Urban°, Madame Didiee ; 1 Conte di San Bri , M. Faure; Marcella, Signor land ; 11 Conte de Nevers, Signor Tagliafico ; Meru, :flignor Polonini ; De itetz , Signor lea lar Huguenot Soldier, tsignor .Lucches, ; and Raoul, si.olor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. The incidental Divertissement wi 1 be supported by Mdlle. Mdlle. Carmine, and M. Despla Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 75. ; amphitheatre ,-ta. Is, 10s. 6d., 79., and 55.; amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at th box-offic under the portico of the tnea:re, whiftti is r pm from ten to live, and at the principal musieselhrs' and librartans'. THEATRE ROYAL AY NIARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING. THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale. Buckstone, Rogers , Clark, Weathersby, 3lesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. After which, the new Easter piece, entitled` ENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, oe, &c.; . , Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden. Nelly lower, 11111, Wright, .Rogers, To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Mr. Compto n. Commence at ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Tinder the Sole Manaqement of Mr. Fechter. Mr. FECHTER will perform HA - N..11.E r THIS EVENING (MONDAY). Claudius , Mr. Emery ; Polonius, . Brougham; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan ; La.ertes, Mr. C. a nd n - Horatio, Mr. air. Shore First Gravedigger, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Osric, F. Charles; Messrs. W M'lntyre, F. Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss Kate , Terry ; Actress, Hiss M. lienrade ;end Gertrude, Miss Elsworthy. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open at half past 7, and Hamlet com mences at 8. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. aIIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, Shakspere'i ROMEO AND JULIET. Ro meo, Mr. J. Nelson ; 3lercutio, Jr.A Vining ; :Nurse, Mrs. 11. Marston ; Juliet, Mdlle..titella Colas. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Role Prom-lc/tor and ManaYer. Mr. B. Webster. Last Week but two of he Great Tragediene, Miss Bateman, in the character of LEAH. THIS EVENLNG,an apropcs Sketch, SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, It Phillips, Stephenson. Af er which, at 8, LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, H. Phillips, Biiiingtun, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; airs. Billington. To conclude with TI-IE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Tooe, P. Bedford, Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. MISS BA'FEMAN.-L E A H.-THI EVENING and EVERY EVENING —Miss Bateman will apr k ,' ear in her great impersonation 01 the Jewish ma din further notice In order .o give due effect to tids most remarkable success of the se son, ea,ire,y new scenery by the celebratNi artists Messrs. banon and :•ons, and TllOlllpS .11. New dr, ss,s and appo ntmesuts prepares for its production. —N.,,. In consequence of the stressing, and numerous :applications at the lion-offs .e, ar mgement. have Low been made by which Seats m y b. ob tained a Fortnight in Auv,n,e. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Comedy, by Dkn Boucicault, Esq., every Evening. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names or Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P iul Bedford, Mr. F. iobinson. Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Mist IVentwortn, and Mrs. Stirling - . EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. At a quarter before 8, an entirely new and original Comely. in 5 acts, by Dion Boueicaulr, entitled THE FOX CHACE, Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews Mr. J. Clarke, air. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash ey, Mr. W. Cham ,er laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Henrietta Simms (her first appearance here). At 1 0 , OUT OF SIGHT OUT Ok' MIND. Mr. Charles Mathews and Mr. Frank Matthews. To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke; Miss Fanny Josephs. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough. `„ THIS EVENING, TURN HIM OUT. Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. Miss Ada Swaaborough. After which, MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, James, Fenton, Turner, &c. ; Marie Wilton, Simpson, dzc. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr. T. Thorne Commence at 7. C FOALS.—The LILLESH A.L L Co NIP ANT'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 24s. per ton. Double 209 per ton. 'l o p 239. „ Nuts.. • Deep 2ls. Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W.. and 17, South Whart, Faddln.gton, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, lan be had Every Evening 01 G. K. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather--Sun Office, May 23, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.91. Wind—N.W.; moderate breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morainz, 3h. 3m.—A fternocn, 3h. 25m. rOAKOB.Rovf.-Morn'ng, 3h, 45m.—Afternoon, 4h. Bm. - • :44;6.40.'1114, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1864. The fearful slaughter again going on out at the seat of war in North America is calculated, we should i m agine, to put even the most infatuated sticklers for the universal application of the Non•lnterven policy, sli g h t l y ou t o f conce it Lion princip le, or with their exceedingly safe, but sometimes a:so (we can quite imagine the contingency) exceedingly mean panacea. Forty thousand Federale—accorcl ing to their own account—put hors-de combat, that is, 40,000 killed and Rounded by reason of the last hideous few hours fighting Forty thousand Federals. The Federals being the assailants. But how many Confederates have been maimed and killed we have yet to learn. Probably a correspondingly frightful aggregate of brave men destroyed and annihilated. So that ire two or three days the chief part of a round 100,000 American citizens have been swept off either sud denly to the grave or agonized to the military hospitals and ambulances. And here again without anything at all decisive as a grim compensation for this wasteful destruction of human life. The Fede. rale, it is true, have advanced at the end of their three days' fighting. But in their advance they approach the ably withdrawn forces of LEE in a stronger position than ever. In a position so strong that it is reputed to be all but impregnable. Insomuch that it is absolutely being likened, we observe, to the renowned position taken up by WELLINGTON in the Peninsula, behind the lines of Torres Vedras. The object is, of course, to get at the Southern capital, the capital of Richmond. And, in aiming at this, they are so far advancing towards their aim, thole Northerners : But, it must be confessed, their successes hitherto, in this advance, are most curiously and strangely questionable. They fight, for instance; on the stb, 9da at d 10. h instants, the Federals under Gen tr e ls HANCOCK, WA RREN, and SEDGWICIi assailing their Southern foe under Ge nerals }I'LL, EIVELL, and LONGSTRELT. The con t st between the two armies being such, according to the Federals' own account, that they, the Northerners, on their own side lose 40,000 men— and with these 40,000 two out of their three Gene• ro 's, both WARREN cod SEIriWICK 7.eingannnunceci as killed, On the Sonlern side We know not ozei how much has been their total of killed and wounded —knowing, in feet, at the present, for instance. but of one man out of their whole army bticp wounded, that one man however being about the noblest soldier of them all under LEE, namely, LEE'S veritable b:other-in-arms, the gallant and gifted LONGSTREET. There is unhappily but little room left for hope that the reported deaths of the two Federal Generals, that is WARREN and SEDGEWICK, may be found to have bee❑ wrongly so reported as killed. But to the last we shall continue to hope that the wounding of LONGSTREET may prove to have been nothing serious. His loss, in effect, would, for the:cause of the South, be second only to the yet lamented loss of the famous ".STONEWALL" JACKSON. The new position taken up by LEE since his retreat— that retreat of the Confederates being in truth, strictly a :t7ategic movement —the Federal assail. ants having been repulsed at all points on the 8:h, the 9th, and the 10 h instant—is undets' ood to be further south than Spottsyl vannia, on the road to Richmond. The upshot of it lall being that in traversing merely 20 miles on their way towards the Southern capital,the northern army has lost two Generals as well as 40,000 men in killed and wounded. With only too fearful reason, it must be said that the sensation headers of the deadly news from the Seat of War, in the New York newspapers, included among them in flaming capitals, AWFUL FIGIITING IN VIRGINIA. The fighting being doubly awful thus in truth—first, because the war is a civil war; and, secondly, because the fighting, even thus frightfully, has led to no decisive result. Herr TON BIsMARK seems determined to let :here be no mistake regarding his notions on the chief topics of the important concerns now occu• pying the Conference. It would appear as if the Prussians had resolved to try how much they could do to outrage public opinion and to exhibit their utter indifference to the restraints which compacts and obligations impose. The London Treaty ib now, it is alleged, to be looked upon as nil, and the astute and active brain of the Berlin iNlinistEr is employed in twisting phrases and distorting facts until he makes cut a very specious show, and de monstrates how right and proper it is to ignore the terms of the treaty altogether. It is true that many persons of experience were sage enough to prophecy that this would b 3 the next move; but notwithstanding it is most likely that the authentic announcement of the determination will astonish and annoy many. There are always some infatuated individuals who will persuade themselves that things will go right in the end, and however per- verse the authorities may be at present, that they will shortly hear reason. These sanguine expec tations have not assuredly been fulfilled in the smallest degree since the commetc-ment of the late war, and far from any hope of seeing its fulfilment we may rather say that our fears have been more than realised. This last move of Herr VON Bis- MARK'S is to do away wits the least chance of the Conference interfering with his cherished plans, and to destroy the only hope that remains of a satisfactory adjustment being arrived at. It is all very fine for him to go back so far, and try to make out a case for himself, bat it does not need a very sharp-sighted politician to detect the inccnsistence of his arguments. If the Danish Government had gone too far in its attempts to frame the constitu• tion of Schleswig, was that a reason why such in tolerable conduct should be exhibited by the Pills,. sians in particular, and. the allied armies in general. The whole of the despatch is a contradiction in terms, and explains very accurately the disin genuous form adopted by the Prussians when ex plaining a difficult question of their foreign policy. All through the retrospective glance we meet with a series of encroachments on the part of the Danes, and of wise forbearance and finally slow resort to arms for the restitution oi their rights. A stranger who studied BISMARK . S letter attentively would never have imagined that the . issues of the contest thus begun had attracted the earnest attention of all Europe, and that all sympathy was on the side of the people so denounced and stigmatised by the official' narrator of events in this epistle. It must be borne in mind that this is all written for a purpose, and that in some respects it is almost useless to discuss it too particularly and to analyse its bearings too closely, for it is the ex pression of opinion on the part of those who have made up their minds beforehand what to do, and afterwards invent a plausible reason for their ma r ceevres. It makes very little difference to the Prussians whether the terms of the London Treaty are complied with or not, bat it is a very conve nient excuse for violence and oppression to assert that the Danes have violated the solemn engage ments entered into, and that the honour and in terests of Prussia alike call for their fulfilment, or for some new proposal being entered upon. In his statement about the Danes not fulfilling their con tract, Herr von BISMARK seems totally to forget that ho is insulting the Powers that were parties to the Treaty of 1852, and that he is virtually telling them to let him alone, for they cannot or else dare not interfere with him to prevent the execution of his design. After perusing the communication of the Prussian Minister to the Ambassador in Lon don we may well ask what is the use of having agreed to a Conference at all if the ground is to be cut away from under the feet of those who delibe rate. The members of the conclave meet to impress the necessity or urge the advisability, of Prussia adhering to some fixed regulations, and maintain log her engagements with Denmark, and also with the other countries that were parties to the Treaty. Instead of agreeing readily the Cabinet of Berlin have, from the outset of the deliberations, inter posed as many obstacles as they can to the fulfilment of the purpose of the meeting. First there was a series of delays before beginning the deliberations; then upon one protest or another a perpetual put ting off when the business had actually commenced. Now we meet with a more serious check than any previously encountered in this abjuration by Herr B ISMA RK, of the vital prin c ipl es o f th e r i g ht s o f n more arroga n t p i ece of assumption than this iristl declaration has seldom been perused. First of all there is a recapitulation of the assertions of the Government of King WILLIAM, and then from these it is deduced that the Prussians have a right to act upoa the threats and menaces which have been so pl en tif u lly hurled against the Danes. This is strange reasoning, and indicates a total want of respect for the opinion of others, and a complete disregard for the observance of solemn obligati ons that alternately amazes and exasperates one. W e are fallen upon evil d ays i n deed if the spirit of England is to submit to this indignity, and the intelligence of her people to stoop to such a level as that to which M. Buell/ate.. seeks to degrade us. If it is to go faith to the world that we are unable or unwilling to protect our allies from the rupture of treaties to le hick we were parties, and to interpose any check to the attempts of invaders against their privileges,we had better not mix up in foreign affairs at all. If it amounts to this that we must not vin dicate our rights or avenge the wrongs of others, if we are powerless to support our integrity and assist their independence, it stands to reason that it will very soon cease to concern the aggressive States, whether England approves of their conduct or not, and that all she does is to send despatches that give encouragement, and then to disavow them by standing still when no heed is paid to our warn ing. Much has been seid and written regarding our mismanagement of the Danish question, but no w itness has yet Food forth with such condemnatory THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1864. proof of our dereliction from duty as the writer of this c ommunication. In every line of it we learn the certainty of the aggression of Prussia, and also the confirmation of the reticence of England. The claims of the literary profession upo❑ public sympathy and assistance when age, infirmity, or misfortune steps in to paralyse the hand of the worker for his fellow-men, have long been gene- rally acknowledged. The official provision made by our wealthy country is, it is true, of very slender amount, and small as the sum so set aside is origi naliy, it is still further diminished by being fz-e- quently partially diverted from its purpose. Many ❑ot coming directly within the ranks of the literary profession have had a shore in the annual twelve hundred, and, although their claims to recognition may have been equally pressing, they should cer- tainly have been provided for out of some other fund than that specially set aside for the benefit of men of letters. 0 vieg partly to the inadequacy of the State provision, and partly to the vicissitudes of an exhausting and fluctuating profession, the Literary Fund has been only too much needed to supplement the aid afforded by Government. There is, however, a very important branch of the literary profession, whose ranks are so wide and deep that they include many not strictly coming under the title of men of letters. Yet their labours are often more arduous, always more incessant. Their public services are universally oppreciated, and their means of subsistence frequently entirely dependent on the possession of sound health and unflagging energies. To meet the necessities of this numerous body the Newspaper Press Fund, already in exist ence, has been re-organised, and its inaugural dinner was celebrated en Saturdey evening, under the presidency of an accomplished and consistent friend of the Press—Lord HOUGHTON. It was a grati fling assembly, and its results promised well for the future of the Fund, the list of subscriptions and donations amounting to £1,500. Kindly wishes, too; pour in from all sides. The magniltes of the land rivalled the self-made men who tendered the ex preseion of their hearty goodwill and sympathy Men of war and peace, statesmen and lawyers, politicians and men of basiness, and above all literary men and artists were ready with the word of good speed and the helping hand. Whig and Tory, Liberal and Conservative, united in support of an institution whose members belong to no one sect or party, but whose influence has done so much towards breaking down the old barriers of on party feeling and religious intolerance. The dertaking is not to be altogether of an eleemo synary character, since it is to include subscrip ions from members as well as those donations, bequests, and contributions which form the regu ler income of a charitable association. The society lost nothing in the hands of its President, whose able advocacy set forward its claims in the strongest and most impressive manner. He re• minded his hearers that this institution owed its origin to the efforts of some benevolent men many years ago, who thought that the establishment of a mutual assurance society of gentlemen connected with the press would be a valuable achievement. " It was thought," in the words of Lord HOUGH " that the press of this country was an in stitution large enough, and various enough, and therefore from its breadth and its variety, fortunate and unfortunate enough to authorise yo❑ to bind together your sheaves in your good fortune, so that you might glean something i❑ your bad." He reminded his hearers likewise of a truth that might well be painfully present to some of them—that their profession was one peculiarly demanding a prudent provision for the future, depending as it did on the unfailing exercise of hardly-tasked powers. We can wily echo his good wishes for . the prosperous development of the reorganised institu tion, and trust that in its new form it will avoid all the mistakes and accidents, which chequered its earlier course, so that it may become one of the recognised and stable charitable societies of our country, of an extent, a wealth and an efficacy com mensurate with the:prominent position at present held by the Fourth Estate. It was, of course, im possible at a meeting so largely attended by the votaries of St. Stephen's to avoid reference to that particular department of the press which is con nected with the Houses of Parliament. It is not so long since the great constitutional victory of public reports of the debates was fought and won that the present generation should altogether forget the struggle or what it owes to the men who carried it. Sir ERSKINE PERRY, in proposing the toast of the two Houses, remarked that a relative of his own, when first be went professionally to report in the House of Lords, was forced to take his notes secretly in hie hat, and that some one having observed the fact even those notes were useless, although the debate was one of great importance. we may fancy the disappointment and mortification of the young &butane at so ignoble a conclusion to his labours! Lord HOUGHTON, in speaking of the interest with which, during his long career in the Lower House, he 'gad watched the Reporters' Gallery, observed that he sometimes felt like the old Spanish monk, who believed the only realities around him to be the pictures on the wall, for that as brave youth and hoary age alike passed away from the scene, he was often inclined to think that the gallery was the most permanent institution, and the busy occupants of the benches below them were but the flitting shadows. Mr. T)ENMAN, in a humorous address, foretold a prosperous career for the young society, and Mr. NEWDEGATE, who readily acknowledged the obligations of parlia mentary representatives to the press, which set their words and actions fairly before their consti tuents, both joined in hopes and congratulations. So that altogether this inauguration took place under happy auspices, attended, as was fitting, by many kindred spirits, presided over by an old well wisher and literary man, and giving from the amount of the sums it has already collected every reasonable ground for cheerful anticipations of a useful and prosperous career. "We trust that a prudent and careful management will husband its resources and administer its affairs in a liberal and yet Provident manner, and that those who have so kindly and promptly come forward with their assistance at the outset may watch over its interests in tha same spirit, until it has grown and increased enough to take its place among well endowed and widely established institutions. TON, PROPOSED SHOREDITCH HOSPITAL, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SON. _ - 5111,— . 1 am requested to ask you to give publicity to the enclosed letter, and beg to add that all the members of the preliminary committee, and all but three of the original members of The Committee, have now disconnected them selves horn the promoters,—l am, sir, your obedient servant, JAMES EDMUNDS, M,D, 3.5, Finsbury-circus, L.C., 23d May, 1864. (Copy.) we find it necessary to withdraw our names from the list of vice-patrons of the proposed "St. Loonard's Hos pital." TOWNSTIEND, (Signed) ENFIELD, M.P., ROBERT HANTIIIRY, Jun., M,P May 23, 1854 THE FAMOUS DIAMOND CALLED " THE STAR OF THE SOUTH" has arrived by the last English mail at Bom bay. It is in the possession of Messrs, Volkart Brothera. The value of this diamond is said to be seven and a halt millions of francs. A good opportunity for a native Prince to enrich his regAis. LATEST INTELLIGENCE LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] HEALTH OF THE POPE, According to one Telegram, we read—" In spite of the disc:ttimer of the Moniteur the Pope is believed to be very ill." According to another, under date "Rome, Wed nesday (via Marseilles). The Pope has left his apartments, and is expected to attend the procession at the fete of Corpus Christi," So that, in point of fact, the health of his Holiness the Pope is so alarming that it is fully expected by the latest accounts from Rome that he will assist on Thursday next at the grand celebrations on the feast of Corpus Christi ! In proof at any rate of the exceeding accuracy of the reports of his serious re lapse, it is certain that he has recently quitted his apartments ! PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAY 23. The Crown Prince of Prussia has left for Stettin to assume the command of the 2d army corps. His Royal Highness is expected to return this evening. A banquet is to be given at the new Palace in Potsdam to-morrow in celebration of the birthday of her Majesty Quen Victoria. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 21.—The market is rather heavy, and prices have slightly receded. Threes, for the Account, are DOW at 66f. 70c. Mobilier have also decline 3, and are last quoted at 1,156 f. 25c. Rail way Market quiet, but pretty firm. Tile market closed as follows : 41 per Cents 93 25 Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 .65 Credit Mobilier 1148 75 D o , end month 1151 Bank Shares 3352 50 Credit k oncier 121,0 Roman RA IL Italian Loan 69 05 Jo. end mouth 69 05 New ditto Do. end mouth — Russian Austrian - Spanish Threes., • 51 50 Dome Debt . . 49 75 Deferred VANS. Cash. Account. Orleans BB2 50 .. 882 50 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 880 883 75 New ditto 877 50 S3uthern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa„ 568 75 .. 562 50 Ditto to Barcelona • • the Municipal Boaid, in succession to Major A. H. Curtin, deceased,. " It is expected that Mr. A. B. Warden, CS., will succeed Mr. Erskine as Judge of the High Court, Bombay. _ _ "The scarcity and dearness of grain is so great at Neemuch and some other parts of Central India that a famine is feared to be imminent. " Lady Frere, wife of the Governor of Bombay arrived here from England in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's mail steamer Benares, on the 26th inst. " The ship Shannon (Dunbar), from Liverpool, arrived at Bombay on the 21st inst., after a passage of six months. Tho ail mate and four of the crew are in custody, charged with having conspired to deprive Captain Dunbar of the command of the ship and to cast her away. " We have no news of importance from Cabul, or from any other part of Central Asia." THE ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, Fechter as Hamlet, Prlnc,` of Denmark, The long expected and eagerly looked for revival of Mr. Fechter's Hamlet " came off" at last, like one of the Great Events of the Season as it is, on Saturday evening. In many respects this, the indisputable masterpiece of Shakspere'e all-iecom parable genius, has never been more magnificently put upon the stage than it has now at last been put upon the stage of the Lyceum Theatre undels Mr. Fechter's management. An immense and, brilliant audience crowded stalls, pit, boxes, and gallery, from the floor of the house to within an inch or two of the ceiling, on Saturday, in visible evidence of the curiosity awakened in regard to this grand revival. One or two of the scenic effects—it should be observed at once—scenic effects from which so much had been anticipated—fully realised our expectations. In one of them, the extraordinary character of which had been whispered about beforehand (evidently erroneously), we were doomed, it is true, to be disappointed. The rumoar in regard to this purely supposititious stage effect, having been, that upon the castle platform where Hamlet is seen following in the path taken by the Ghost, the latter would have passed over the snowy battlements without leaving any trace whatever of its footprints, the footprints of the Prince in pursuit of the ghastly apparition being at the same time clearly discernible. Nothing of this, however, was witnessed, of course, on Saturday, any more than the once.talked-of application of the famous Dircks and-Pepper optical contrivance, with .a view to the more vivid realisation of the spectral illusion in the ghost-scenes of the great Tragedy. Applications of eccentric contrivances of this exceptional and even extraordinary character might, however, not unjustly have been reprobated by the truer Shaksperian students as partaking overmuch of a tendency to mere clap-trap. It is probably judi cious, therefore, that nothing of the kind was even attempted. In the more legitimate care for the mice en-scene, however, at the Lyceum, everything that could reasonably be desired has been cared for with a hand lavish sometimes to an excess of absolute munificence. The scenery by Telbin, always effective, was in several instances almost magically illusive. The platform scenes in the first act, and the graveyard scene in the last were worthy of the admiration with which they were welcomed. But the grandest display of all was in the heart of the tragedy, in the third act, that is, where the play within the play is performed in the grand Hall of the Palace before the majesty of Denmark. It was altogether a sumptuous revelation of barbaric pomp, and would have tended even of itself to have ren dered remarkable to an extraordinary degree this revival of " Hamlet," at the Lyceum under Mr. Fechter's management. Here, however, it should be remarked at once that the new pictorial decorations, the scenery, the picturesque and often gorgeous costumes, the splendid up holstery work, and all the rest of it—were wholly and absolutely subordinated to the care evidently devoted throughout to the acting by Mr. Fechter and his company. The impersonations, apart from the gifted actor-manager, himself, were many of them, in a high degree worthy of admira tion. Miss Kate Terry's Ophelia was an exquisitely pathetic and tender realisation of that lovely imagining of Shaksperees. Miss Elsworthy's Queen Gertrude, again, was, all through the play signally meritorious. The Polonius of Mr. Brougham lacked that unctuous senility which was noticeable of late years in Mr. Meadows—and which in the his tory of the modern stage is understood to have had its most felicitous pourtrayal years ago by that true Shaksperian actor the late Mr. Blanchard. The King Claudius of Mr. Emery was one of the moat successful delineations of a stage monarch that we have for a long while witnessed. As a piece of serious acting it was as excellent in its way as poor Bland's Burlesque Sovereigns used to be as speci mens of grotesque impersonation. Mr. Shore looked Horatio, and that was all : while the Ghost of Hamlet's father, as represented by Mr. Jordan, had by far too robustuous a voice for a mere unsub stantial apparition. As to the part, the part of parts in the whole Tragedy, the Tragic hero among all Tragic heroes, Hamlet the Dane, as impersonated by Mr. Fechter—what play-goer in London does not already know it, and know it perfectly ? lUmlet the blonde-haired, Hamlet in funereal black, but without a touch of the glit picturesque attire. Pechter's tering bugles on his Hamlet in a word ! That strange, new, thoroughly unconventional Hamlet that startled the world of London playgoers either into admiration or into indignation, accordingly as the beholders happened to be infatuated or not in regard to the old tradi tional version of the Danish Prince—in his personal attributes, in his very dress, in his various readings, in effect, in the whole spirit and in the whole sub stance of that great tragic character. At the period of Mr. Fechter's original appearance as Hamlet at the Princess's, we carefully analyzed the intellec tual peculiarities more especially noticeable in so many of his astounding innovations. Upon the whole our estimate then of what appeared to be its eminent charms, even among them its pre-eminent beauties, has now been confirmed upon the revival of the great tragedy at the Lyceum on Saturday last, under the distinguished Actor's own management. Whether or not it can be traceable to the hiatus that has occurred in the representation of Ham. let by Mr. Fechter—by reason of the popularity last season of " The Duke's Motto" and this season, until now, of the kindred melodrama of " Bel Demonio"—certain it is that, some among the most exquisite of the new points in Mr. Fechter's reading of Hamlet were, according to our notion, either forgotten or strangely slurred over on Satur day. Where Polonius, for example, asks him, in the first act, whether he will not come in out of the air—his sudden exclamation, with an indescribable pathos in the very tone of his voice, "Into my grave ?—passed on Saturday almcst unnoticed, almost unthought of. His innovative readings, again, still strangely jar at times upon our long accustomed sense of the meaning of the words of Shakspere. As, for example, where the Ghost is re lating to him his being barbarously murdered in the orohard,when Hamlet, listening, horror stricken, to the narrative, and suddenly recognizing the identity of the assassin through the Ghost's generalised description of him, Mr. Pechter sighs forth, as in an agonised sigh " 0 my prophetic soul !" and then, interrogatively asks suddenly of the Ghost, with a stress upon the pronoun—" My Uncle ?" It is in the love scenes with Ophelia, how ever, that Mr. Fechter, to our thinking, altogether defies competition. The exquisitely pathetic tens derness of his acting, of his inimitable bye-play, of the wonderful fluctuation of contending emotions over his eminently expressive, and also eminently handsome, face, the tearful music of his intonations throughout those charming love scenes with Ophelia—but especially towards the close of that one in which he bids her again and yet again, in an incoherent phreezy of con tending passions (some assumed, some real) " Get thee to a Nunnery !"—roused the Lyceum audience on Saturday, as the audiences at the Princess's used to be aroused, we need not say for how many hundred nights, to a pitch of enthusiasm as loud and prolonged in its expression, as it was in itself absolutely unaffected. The popular trage dian, it should be said, immediately on his first appearance, was welcomed with a long-continued, and again and yet again reiterated thunder of ap plause, and afterwards during the evening, was summoned before the audience anew at the end of every act (save one), to receive a repetition of the same cordial acclamations. The single exception referred to above in parenthesis being attributable solely to the admiration which had been immediately before then excited among the audience by the last scene of Ophelia, in that strange eventful tragedy, where she comes on dazed into madness by her griefs, warbling snatches of song, and distributing flowers among the royal bystanders--a scene in which Miss Kate Terry made a genuine hit, win ning on her exit, a stoney outburst of plaudits. At the close of ail the other acts, Mr. Ftchter had house. to appear anew before the footlights (and no won der !) to receive from his audience renewed expres sion of their admiration. It was a greeting justly due to him on Saturday last at once as an actor and as a manager, as a manager of extraosdinary enter prise, and as an actor of very rare gifts and of unquestionable genius. ,-.:. r - T -N,---,-.„..- -,,,,,, -c.,AN, 6 ~ e' , - . , . , ti _ . i' r f ur t '''''' ~, , ,T uit. ' :,_., Strittikr. .., — :---troq: -%t HER MAJESTY, BALMORAL, May 19. The Queen walked in the grounds in the morn ing, and went out in the afternoon, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Churchill. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena, with the Prince and Princess Leiningen, drove to the Liun of Die. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was present at the marriage of his cousin Princess Clot)lde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with tl,e Archduke Joseph, which was solemnised at Coburg on the 12th inst. His royal highness proceeded from thence on a visit to his sister, tLe Princess Alice (Princess Louis of Hesse DArmstadt), and goes by Carlsruhe and Geneva to Marseilles, where he will join the Racoon on the 22d inst. MAY 20. The Queen went out in the grounds in the morn ing, and drove in the afternoon with her 2.3yal Highness the Princess Leiningen. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton and Major Teesdale, drove to Hampton Conrt on Saturday. The Prince an e Princess, attended by the Countess of Morton and Major Teesdele, went to the Italian Opera, Covent-garden, in the evening. The Rev. Professor Gibson had the honour of explaining to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales the details of the illuminated address pre sented to their royal highnesses, on their marriage, by the Presbyterians of Ireland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Countess of Morton and Major Teesdale in waitia:g, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The communion service was read by the Rev. the Subdean, the Rev. S. V. Povah, and the Rev. Thos. lieleaore. The Rev, the Subdean preached the sermon from Psalm ix., v. 10. Anthem, "I was in the spirit," Blow; sung by Messrs. R. Barnby, Benson, Bradbury, and Whit€- Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The following were present during the service =— His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Archbishop of York, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Bishop of St. David's, the Duke of St. Albans, Earl St. Germans, Marquis of Bath, Viscount Syd ney, Lord Vivian, Lord Hardinge, and Lieutenant- Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps. THE BOMBAY MAIL, By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived files of papers from Bombay to April 28, and from Calcutta to April 20, We take the following summary from the Bombay Gazette of April 28 : " It is reported in telegrams received at Madras from Calcutta that the Hot?. Ashley Eden has re turned to Darjeeling from his mission to Bbootan, where ha was grossly insulted in public Durbar by the Chief, and dismissed with great indignity, after having been compelled to sign a treaty making over to them the whole of Assam, including the tea estates held by Europeans, which are to be taken over et a valuation. " His Excellency the Viceroy left Calcutta on the evening of the 15th inst., and expects to reach Simla on the 30th idem. His Excellency was at Allahabad on the 17th and 18th, Ca wnpore on the 19th, and Meerut on the 21st. He will arrive at Umballah on the 27th inst., where he will be the guest of Sir Herbert Edwardes. "Brigadier - General Sir Neville Chamberlain, K.C.8., while in Calcutta on his way home, has been the guest of the Viceroy at Government-house. " His Excellency the Viceroy has directed that the Supreme Council shall, from end after the Ist May next, and until further notice, assemble at Simla. " The Hon. Mr. Justice Norman has been ap pointed to officiate as Cnief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta during the absence of Sir Barnes Peacock, who has gone home. Sir Charles Wood, in reply to a telegram from the Viceroy, has decided that the appointment of Chief Justice can only be held by a barrister judge. " Disturbances have broken out in Bhootan, in the Dhurm Itij territory. The Deb Raja has been dismissed, and a number of inferior landholders and officers have sought refuge in British territory. "The Bill providing for the solemnisation of marriages in India of persons professing the Chris tian religion has been pass3d, and received the con firmation of the Viceroy. " The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have determined to reduce their rates of passage money between Bombay and England, from £lOO to £B5, from the 9th of June next. "It is currently reported that Sir Charles Trevelyan proceeds to England in December next, d that his successor will be Mr. Forster, one of tier Mojesty's Finance Commissioners. " The State prisoners of the Royal house of Delhi, now languishing in confinement at Rangoon, having, on the death of the ea-King, applied for leave to return to Delhi or some part of the North.Westeru Provinces, Sir Charles Wood has refused to meddle with what has been ruled respecting this family in India, and has:turned a deaf ear to their application. " Colonel Eden, the Political Agent at Oodeypoor. in Central India, was mobbed by some 300 or 400 persons on the 31st March last, who rushed into the Residency, shouting andviolently gesticulating and throwing stones. Colonel Elen has rendered him self unpopular with certain evil disposed persons who feel aggrieved at his putting in force the law against certain crimes, more especially his prohibi tion of the custom of Meriah (human) sacrifices. It has been decided to opeu the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India line of railway from Bombay through to Ahmedabad on the Ist of June next for passenger traffic, and immediately after the mon- soon for goods traffic. " Her Majesty's ship Severn, 51, carrying the broad pennant of Commodore Montresor, C. 8., took her final departure from Bombay for Trincomalee on the 15th inst. Shortly after getting under weigh one of her men fell overboard from the top and was drowned. " One of the persons injured in the late railway accident near Mahim has since died. " A dreadful accident has happened at a review of the artillery at Bellary, four men having been blown to pieces and eight disabled by the explosion of a tumbril. " A drill-havildar of the 31st Punjanb Native Infantry has been shot by two recruits of that re giment, who first robbed and then murdered him, The assassins are Eusorzye Pathans. " The ship Cospatrick, with the supplementary wire of the Persian Gulf telegraph, arrived at Bom bay on the 15th inst., and proceeds to Guader, via liurrachee, this day. "The Bombay share market has again been in a very excited state, but has latterly become rather quieter, time-bargains having been prohibited by an understanding among the brokers for eight days, in consequence of the failure of some speculators to meet their losses, and the absconding of several others. " The 21st Regiment Royal North British Fusi liers have arrived at Madras direct from Ea gland and aro now located at Fellary, in the barracks recently occupied by the 74th Highlanders. "The annual exhibition for the distribution of prizes and scholarships to the successful students of the Grant Medical College, Bombay, was held (n the 13th inst., his excellency Sir Bartle Frere pre siding on the cccasion. g, Cholera has been committing great ravages during the last fortnif:ht at Bombay, Broach, and ifirodit. 111,,j0r A. H. Curtis, President of the Municipal Board and Income-tox Commissioner at Bombay, is one of the latest victims of this epidemic. "Mr. George Scott, C S., Collector of Bombay, has been appointed by Government President of To the Editor of the Sun, SlR,—Your article of Thursday on the Customs Estab lishments calls forth a few observations from me. The greatest portion of the revenue of the country is collected by this department of the civil service. In that collection a certain amount of responsibility necessarily rests with,and trustworthiness is requisite in, tho employes. For this they receive an average salary of £2OO per annum after 20 years service. Such being the case, I ask whether an over eager parsimoniousness is not displayed by the au thorities most destructive to a true economy ? For a care less and slovenly performance of duties is the probable result of ill-paid services, and what can be more depressing, or likely to produce indifference in the discharge of his duties, than for any man to find that the remuneration he receives is totally inadequate to his reasonable requirements —and what can be mote detrimental to the public service than that a large number of those employed in it should be continually struggling against pecuniary embarrassments, ' commencing almost from the time they enter upon it. In the beginning of April were published the Civil Ser vice pstimates, and never was a more striking anomaly exhieited than met my eye in comparing the two offices of the Inland Revenue and the Customs. -- - The revenue collected by the Customs for the year 1863 amounted to about 21 millions, and the expense of the establishment to £771,000. That collected by the Inland Revenue to about 18 millions, and its attendant expenses amounted to £1,213,000. This difference in the expense of the two establishments arises from the superior scale of payment awarded to the clerks in the Custom House ; and that such a difference should exist in two departments, the duties in which are precisely similar, and the examinations previous to appoint• ment the same, is most incomprehensible. The clerks in the Inland Revenue office are not consi dered too highly paid, and it seems to me to be only just that their brethren in the Custom-house should receive similar remuneration for similar duties. At any rate, that a notoriously hardworking and meritorious body of men should receive such salaries as may enable them to main tain themselves and their families—a thing which their petition to Parliament shows is beyond the power of the greater portion of them.---I am, &c., SCRTJTATOR. London, May 21, 1864. The Late Fraud on the Banks, The public will remember that in August last a warrant was issued for the apprehension of a Hungarian, named Sigismund Dietrichstein, upon a charge of having by fraud and conspiracy obtained the sum of £lO,OOO in Bank of England notes, with which he absconded, and at the same time a large reward was offered for bis apprehension. The warrant was obtained at the instance of Mr. Mullens, the solicitor to the Bankers' Association, on behalf of two of the City banks, from whom the money bad been obtained, and the circumstances of the case were somewhat peculiar. It appeared that Dietrichstein had carried on business in Old Broad street as a merchant, and was considered a person of responsibility arid credit, and he kept an account with two bankers, one at the West-end of the town and the other in the City, and presented all the outward appearances of wealth and respectability, There was no doubt, however, from what subsequently occurred, that these appearances were entirely fallacious, and that Dietrichstein, in conjunction with one or two others, had concocted a deep-laid scheme of fraud, which was carried out in a most ingenious manner. He had been in the habit of speculating on the Stock Exchange, and in the month of August it appeared that he purchased for the account a large quantity of foreign bonds. The account day was Saturday, and on that day ho received the bonds, and gave cheques upon his bankers for the amount. As these cheques were crossed and Sunday intervened, two days elapsed before the fraud could be discovered, but it turned out that Dietrichstein bad with drawn the whole of his money from the bankers except a very small sum ; but when this fact was discovered it was found that he and his wife and child had left England. It should be stated that the moment he obtained possession of the bonds he placed them in the hands of two of the City bankers as security for an advance of £lO,OOO, which amount he received in Bank of England notes, and took with him when he departed. Upon these facts be coming known an application was made to the Lord Mayor upon the subject, but it seems that at first there was some doubt as to the character of the offence that had been committed, the circumstances of the alleged crime being somewhat novel; but in the result a warrant was granted for the apprehensio❑ of Dietrichstein upon the charge of fraud and conspi racy. This warrant was placed in the hands of Moss, one of the City detectives, for execution, and he started off, accompanied by Mr. Pollaky, in pursuit of the fugitive. After a long chase the officer suc ceeded in arresting him at Pestb, in Hungary, and in his possession there was found a considerable portion of the money with which he had absconded, and a good many of the notes also appeared to have been changed by his wife. Dietrichstein was then conveyed to Vienna, and an application was made to the Austrian government for his ex tradition, but Count Rechberg, the Austrian minister, refused to deliver him up on the ground that he was not charged with felony, which offence alone was the subject of the ex tradition treaty, but merely with fraud, and Mr. Mullens, who had himself gone to Vienna for the purpose of endeavouring to procure the delivering up of the prisoner, was obliged to return to Eng land, leaving him in the custody of the Austrian police. It appears that the matter has since been brought to a conclusion by the whole of the money that was obtained by Dietrichstein having been repaid. As above stated, a considerable sum was in his posses sion when he was apprehended, and the whole of the remainder has since been given up. The bonds that were obtained will consequently be restored, and no further proceedings will be taken with re 'erence to the charge. Great Conflagration at Victoria Docks, Yesterday (Sunday) morning, at a few minutes I before one o'clock, an electric telegraph message was received at the c arious stations of the Fire Brigade that a serious conflagration was raging on the Hudson-wharf, Victoria Docks. This property, as is well known, occupied a large superfices, whereon were erected sundry factories belonging to Messrs. ()dam and Co., the representatives of the Patent Blood Manure Company. The first discovery of the fire was made by a police constable of the K division, who in passing along his beat perceived smoke in great volumes issuing from the factory nearest the eastern end. This part of the factory was 200 feet long and 116 broad. It was termed the vitriol department, and contained no less, it is stated by the manager, than 3,000 tuns of oil of vitriol. The engines quickly arrived, but in spite of every exertion the flames were not quenched until the lapse of nearly nine hours. The damage is very extensive. The boots and uniforms of the firemen and the hose of the engines suffered some injury from the vitriol that ran oat of the building. As soon as the fire wee got under a searc hing in quiry was made by the brigade authorities to ascer tain the cause of the disaster, t h e result o f which clearly showed that the over h e at of an iron fine had occasioned the mischief. Captain Shaw, in s official report to the insurance companies forming the London Brigade, describes the da ma g e done as follows The n vitrio: department of two floors high, 200 feet loug, and 116 feet Lroad, belonging 'n Messrs. Odani and Co., the representatives of the Patent Blood Manure Company at Victoria Decks, burnt out, and roof off; buildings and contents come municMing damaged by fire and water." The Thellusson Bark, Of the six millioiznaire bankers of the last cen tury, the last-named, Mr. Peter Thellusson, rose into fame in a very singular manner. Mr. Thellusson was born at Paris, in 1735, the son of Mons. Isaac Thellusson, a native of Geneva, who was establiuhed as banker in a good way of business, which he ex tended considerably by the assistance of a clerk, afterwards famous in history as M. Necker, the ginister of Finance during the French Revolntiou. Mons. Isaac Thellusson, appreciating the value of his clerk, admitted him after a time into partner ship, so that the firm thenceforth became Thellueson and Necker. When Peter Thellusson had grown up into manhood, he was likewise admitted as mem ber of the Paris firm ; but the first throes of the revolution which wore felt ever after made him restless at his desk, and he resolved on emigrating to London and establishing an English branch bank in connection with the house of Thellusson and Necker. A man of great sagacity and extraordinary perseverance, coupled with a desire for making money which amounted to an all-absorbing passion Mr. Peter Thellueson found success at his door, and in a few years built up one of the first banking establishments in. the British metropolis. But, however great his wealth, he still yearned for more ; and pondering day and night over this one great object of his life, he at last hit upon an extraordi nary expedient for multiplying the fortune amassed by him to an unheard of extent. In April, 1796, he put his name to a last will and testament which made the house of Thellusson for ever memorable. Under this will several legacies were left by Mr Peter Thellusson to his wife, his three sons a nd three daughters, amounting together to about £IOO,OOO, and the rest of his fortune, valued at A bove £600,000, was made over to trustees, to accumulate and to be laid out by them in the pur chase of estates in England, until such time as all his children, and the mole children of his sons and grandsons should die, after which the whole pro perty was directed to go to the nearest lineal male descendants bearing the name of Thelltesson• Among these descendants, the property was then to be distributed in the following manner : --The immense estate—grown up into gigantic dimensions by the action of interest and compound interest -- • was to be divided into three equal shares : the first to go to the male clescen dants of the testator's eldest son, another to the second son's male descendants , and the remaining to the male heirs of the third. In case of failure of make descendants of any one of the three his share was to go to the other two ; end if there was a failure of two, then the whole three lots was to be consolidated into one vast property, constituting by far the largest territorial for tune ever known in Europe, or indeed in the W orld. Finally, in the event that there s hould remain no lineal male descendants, the testator di' rected that the whole estate should be sold, and the proceeds applied to pay off the national debt. This was the grandest of all the grand schemes of Mr, Peter Thellusson—to pay off the public debt ei Great Britain 1 . The very idea is bewildering to the ordinary mind. Peter Thellusson's calculations seemed beaut Hull) correct; and evidently not the shadow of a clout,' existed in his mind that by the simple Eecuniula . tion through three or four generations his we Alit would swell into dimensions compared with whiet the fortunes of Kings and Emperors would b' mere beggarly trifles. Unfortunately, the tes tator had left one item out of calculation--ti l fact of the existence of a British institution caller the Court of Chancery, at the shrine of . whi c ; there worship a host of l ong - w i a d e d. gen tl em en, anxious to participate in the pleasing action of ie terest and compound interest. In July, 1797, Al l , Peter Thellusson sh u t hi s e y es , di rec t e d, no do ubt eagerly towards the future and the countless viet'i t accumulating for other Theliussons after generation to COMB ; but after little more than a year, in til , month of December, 1798, two bills were elres!ut, filed in the Court of Chancery against the v' 4l ' e the one by the widow and her aces and thr daughters an e'& (" & the husbands of the two then te a l _ ried, and Oa other by the acting trustees , the bulk of the property. The,validity of the vi n , was establishted by the Lord Chancellor and judg es ' the Court of Chancery ;;nevertheless, the gentlEttlei of the long robe were not all inclined to give up valuable prize. For years and years to come, 1 applications, and injunctions in re Thellueson kee) cropping up in the law courts, and legal win kept digging into the wonderful estate wit h ", hearty energy as any miners in the Australian fields. Poor Mrs. Thellueson got sick over it , ti ✓ died of a broken heart—or a broken Purs e- . li sc January, 1805, seven years after her caleula husband. All the throe eons of Peter Thellu s u t/ had seatii in the House of Commo ns, an- . eldest, Peter Isaac Thellusson, obt ained as peerage, and changed into Baron Eondleshaii Lee For all this the family not did greatlY Pr°:h in the world, and having once got into the A of the bonourah le Court of Chancery, Dever re,aig out of them again. Under th e assiduous wt of the gentlemen of the long ro be, the elg°l2tY